7 NFL television deal predictions

Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports The biggest reason for the recent rush to CBA negotiations s eems to be centered around NFL content rights deals. Here’s the simple logic: the sooner the better for both the owners and the players. Another …

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Sunday Night Football: NBC

This is pretty boring and standard but NBC has done a great job with the marquee NFL game of the week. It wasn’t long ago that Monday Night Football was the marquee game and Sunday Night Football was more like Monday Night Football — I know it’s confusing. NBC changed that. NBC currently pays $950 million per season.

Here’s where it gets interesting. If Sunday Night Football is getting the best games and has a flex option and Monday Night Football on ESPN is currently $1.7 billion per season . . . shouldn’t NBC be paying that much as well? Rights aren’t going down here and NBC has gotten the benefit of flex games. The NFL will ask for $1.7 billion, but NBC will probably end up paying around $1.5 billion.